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Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Now get started with Session 1...Session 2: Units of measure: Introduction - You come across problems requiring calculation every day. These problems could be related to...
Free course 48 hrs
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...de Boys (brother to Orlando and Oliver) arrives with the news of the usurping Duke's sudden conversion to a life of religious solitude, and the reversion of the crown to his exiled brother, Rosalind's father. We have just analysed the play in terms of classical dramatic structure. Modern criticism has suggested other ways of looking at the play's structure, which you will...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...de-platforming’ those whose views are thought to be ‘disagreeable’ or cause ‘offence’ are now at the frontline of today’s ‘culture wars’. On one side are those who argue that in a democracy people must be allowed to speak freely – even if that means airing views that might offend others. On the other side are those who defend their right ‘not to be...
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...de-Christianisation of 1793–4 – as showing where such tolerance of ‘infidelity’ can lead. Significantly, though, his horror is not (unlike Burke’s) directed at the Revolution as such, but rather at this particular phase in its development. Indeed, in the footnote he implies that he does not see the Revolution itself as either a consequence or a cause of moral...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Language and thought: introducing representation
History & The Arts

Language and thought: introducing representation

...de (1879?) The Imaginary Invalid (Le Malade Imaginaire), trans. Roscoe Mongan, London, James Cornish and Sons (first published 1673). Miller, A. (1998) Philosophy of Language, London, UCL Press. Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct, London, Allen Lane. Schiffer, S.R. (1972) Meaning, Oxford, Clarendon Press. Schiffer, S.R. (1987) Remnants of Meaning, Cambridge, Mass.,...
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...de-escalation towards settlement of conflict (Kriesberg, 2011). In other words, there is more than one conflict at play. Here you have read a brief overview of the nature of conflict. When seeking an understanding of development processes, recognising the inevitable presence of conflict brings added uncertainty, unpredictability and complexity to the situation. Keeping...
What do historians do?
History & The Arts

What do historians do?

...de Paul order in full habit, complete with cornette. All these cultural trends generated cultural products (maps, drawings, descriptions) which are, in themselves, evidence of socio-economic developments and power relations. After all, a person had to be very rich to acquire an estate of land and only the well-off had the money and time to purchase and read travel...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Take your teaching online Badge icon
Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...FAQs. When you gain your badge you will receive an email to notify you and you will be able to view and manage all your badges in My OpenLearn within 24 hours of completing the criteria to gain a badge. Get started with Week 1...Take your teaching online: Introduction - [Described image] Figure 1 Same teacher, different tools Welcome to Take your teaching online! In this...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs